If you need a gentle reminder, tomorrow (9th February) is Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day.

I do love Pancakes, whether they are sweet or savoury, they are delicious and a real treat? The only down side if that you can only make one or two (if you have two frying pans) at a time and you have to keep your eye on them as they cook, I am always looking for different recipes and thought this one was a great idea, it’s perfect if you have a large family as you can make a few trays at once, which they will all be ready in approx. 10 minutes.

This recipe and photograph is taken from the website of Booths who are a chain of family owned independent quality food and drink stores that are based in the North West.

Mini Pancake Bites

Ingredients

Vegetable Oil for greasing

125g plain flour

½ teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

2 tablespoons caster sugar

1 large egg

60ml milk

2 tablespoons maple syrup

25g butter melted

Fillings:

Chocolate chips

Blueberries

Raspberries

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/gas mark 4.

Grease a 12 hole mini muffin tin lightly with the vegetable oil.

Place the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and sugar in a bowl.

Crack the egg into a jug and whisk with the milk, maple syrup and melted butter.

Pour this egg mixture into the flour mixture and whisk in well until you have a smooth, thickened batter.

Fill each muffin hole a third full with the mixture.

Push your chosen fillings into the mixture.

Bake for 10 minutes until golden and puffed up.

Tip out and serve warm with a maple syrup dip, cream, ice cream, yoghurt, crème fraiche, custard, or a squeeze of lemon or orange juice, sprinkle with caster sugar or drizzle with syrup or honey.

This amount of mixture will make 12 mini pancakes.

I will definitely give this one a try; it’s an easy, fast way to make delicious treats, why not have a go at making them at School?

Doesn’t time fly, it’s Shrove Tuesday tomorrow and Pancake Day, I have been organised this year and made my batter and a sample Pancake just to make sure that it tastes alright!

Pancakes are great fun to make and delicious to eat but did you know that:

The average Briton will eat 2 Pancakes each, making a total of 117 million eaten in Britain on Pancake Day.

In Britain we will use an estimated 52 million eggs on Pancake Day that’s 22 million more than on any other day.

The world record for the most people collectively tossing Pancakes is 890 and took place in Sheffield, UK in February 2012.

The highest Pancake flipped reached a height of 9.47 metres, it was flipped by Dominic Cuzzacrea in New York USA.

The largest Pancake to be flipped was 15 metres in diameter.

The biggest Pancake ever made weighed 3 tonnes, was 2.5cm thick and measured 15 metres in diameter it was created in Rochdale, UK in 1994 by the Co-operative Union Ltd. and was estimated to contain 2 million calories.

The World record for the highest stack of Pancakes measured an incredible 76cm tall, it contained 60 large Pancakes.